Electronic Memory Product Development, Analysis and Patent Expert Witness (502)
Expertise
Semiconductor memory circuit expert, including DRAM, SRAM, EPROM, EEPROM, Flash, DDR, DDR2, SDRAM, Rambus and DLL.
Skilled in market analysis for memory devices.
New electronic product definition and development.
Product to market analysis and cycle time reduction.
Patent protection, validity and infringement; experienced as an expert witness.
Memory, application specific, digital and analog circuit design.
Experience
President, Consulting Firm 1993 - Present
Provide patent consultation services for the semiconductor industry.
Support clients with expert consultation and/or testimony in International Trade Commission and Federal District Court litigation.
Harris Corporation 1989 - 1994
Senior Scientist - Director of Engineering, Military and Aerospace
Planned and directed new product development and characterization. Managing the R&D and up to 60 exempt professionals.
Gave balanced consideration to technology capability, development cost and market reward.
General Electric 1982 - 1989
Manager, Integrated Circuit Dev., Reliability and QA
Planned and directed new product and technology development and characterization, including computer-aided design tools. ~Led up to 40 exempt professionals related to product quality and reliability effort for this military-oriented semiconductor business.
Bell Telephone Laboratories 1962 - 1982
Supervisor - Member of Technical Staff,
Managed and guided design and development of large scale, high density integrated circuits.
Coordinated circuit design, technology development, test program and package development, electrical and reliability characterization, and transfer to manufacture.
Honors & Publications
Registered Professional Engineer in Florida and North Carolina
Senior Member, IEEE
Member, Industrial Advisory Board, Clemson University,
Three patents in areas of integrated circuit design and characterization
Education
D.Sc. - Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
M. S. - Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University
B. S. - Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh